Written question asked by Iain Wright (Labour) on Wednesday, 26 May 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 2 June 2010. It was answered by John Hayes (Conservative) on Thursday, 3 June 2010 on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Building Colleges for the Future Programme

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he made of the average cost of re-building a further education college under his Department's Building Colleges for the Future in the latest period for which figures are available.

Answer: In 2008-09 the LSC funded 74 projects at an average cost of £21 million of which an average of £15.3 million came from FE Capital Grant funding (73%). However, it is not possible to give the average cost of rebuilding a further education college as this depends on the size and condition of the existing estate. For example the largest funded project in 2008-09 was £101.9 million of which £87.7million was capital grant funded (86%) and the smallest was £537,000 of which £53,700 was grant-funded (10%).

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